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Fart Proudly

“Fart Proudly” (also called “A Letter To A Royal Academy”, also called “To the Royal Academy of Farting”) is the popular name of a “notorious essay” about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin circa 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.

The essay goes on to discuss the way different foods affect the odor of flatulence and to propose scientific testing of farting. Franklin also suggests that scientists work to develop a drug, “holesome and not disagreeable”, which can be mixed with “common Food or Sauces” with the effect of rendering flatulence “not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes”. The essay ends with a pun saying that compared to the practical applications of this discussion, other sciences are “scarcely worth a FART-HING.”

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    —hahaha naalala ko yung papa kong ututin..hahaha :))
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    now has my respect.
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    Fucking Ben Franky.
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    guy NOT our president? besides his crippling syphillus and womanizing
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    Ben is my totes fave founding father.

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